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Justin Donnelly has a new hat. In addition to his chapeaux as chair of the BOF, as volunteer with the Suffield Ambulance Association, and as backup driver here at Suffield by the River, Justin now sports a train engineer’s cap.
The work of Eckhart Tolle, especially his book The Power of Now has had a slowly growing impact on how I think about human behavior, my own and that of other people.
The Town has been busy through these lazy days of summer!
Labor Day, National Read a Book Day, Grandparents Day, Autumn, and Back to School.
Earlier this summer, I saw about a dozen people congregating by the Civil War memorial on the Green. It was about 8 p.m. and hot by New England standards.
11/22/63 by Steven King and The Watch That Ends The Night by Hugh MacLennan.
Packing cartons, I think of millions of people who moved across half-continents and full oceans taking not cartons, but manageable bundles or single pieces of hand luggage.
When I was a novice librarian working at a community college, a young man came in with a “reference question.” The question was “Does the universe have a purpose?”
